Tucker Carlson’s now-famous monologue, in which he made the case for a post-Trumpian populism, has accomplished something no TV news show has done in a generation: Ignite a serious debate about ideas. No small feat, that. Carlson’s on-air treatise...

“Trump is reckless with the truth,” John Podhoretz writes over at Commentary. “That doesn’t give his pursuers license to be reckless with it as well. Quite the opposite, in fact. The discredited Buzzfeed story advances the dreadful case that there...

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Charlie SykesWe all suffer from confirmation bias and the stories that we might wish most fervently to be true are precisely the ones that need to be wrapped most aggressively in caveats, caution, and skepticism.
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Charlie SykesMy latest--> Buzzfeed, the media, and the Age of Trump.
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Nathan Glazer, the preeminent sociologist and a pioneering neoconservative critic of progressive social reforms, died Saturday at the age of 95. A child of Jewish immigrants from Warsaw, Glazer began his career sympathetic to socialism before...

President Trump cast the proposal, which included $5.7 billion for a border barrier, as a compromise as he sought to shift pressure to Democrats to end the government shutdown.

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Charlie SykesWorth noting. Trump has already caved on The Wall: “This is not a 2,000-mile concrete structure from sea to sea. These are steel barriers.. Much of the border is already protected by natural barriers such as mountains and water.”
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The veteran and shrewd New York political operative Bruce Gyory, who’s always worth listening to, writes: Wanted to drop you a note. The slippage we anticipated for Trump’s standing in terms of public opinion from the shutdown is coming to pass. The...

"The university now suffers from the consequences of an untempered and irrational attack on American society, government, and university, one to which we as academics have contributed, and on which we have failed to give much light"